"What?"
The Toad Taoist's eyelids twitched, and his webbed feet slipped on the tiles and he almost fell down. The unicorn beast came over and bit him by the back of the collar, lifted him up, and hung him in the air, with his limbs drooping.
"Master... Old monk, are you telling the truth?"
Around, except for Yuwen Tuo who stood there silently with his hands hanging down, Fajing, Zhu Ganglie, Li Sui'an, and even Hua Hongyi, who usually didn't care about the lives of others, raised his head from the ground and looked at Lu Liangsheng who was hung in the air by the rope, with surprise in his eyes.
Over there, on several slightly twisting rope snakes, Lu Liangsheng grinned with his bloodstained lips, laughing softly.
hehe…
"... He destroyed the demon star... I admire him... But with such a big commotion, with lightning and thunder outside and floods, I'm afraid many people will die... The people who are not prepared at all will be dead all over the ground!!!"
The scholar gritted his teeth and forced out the last sentence.
"Donor Lu."
The old monk Zhenkong looked over there and retracted his gaze. He shook his head at Lu Liangsheng, whose eyes were red. "If we don't get rid of the evil star, more people will die. I have seen the future and have been working with this Master Wuyuan to do this. The evil star is hanging in the sky. If it continues like this, the world will be full of demons and even cause wars everywhere."
"So, what did you see?"
Lu Liangsheng struggled for a moment, then suddenly opened his clenched teeth and roared, "Say it!"
The suppressed magic power burst out with a bang, and the rope snakes bound around were shaking violently in an instant. The scholar's eyes lit up with a light blue for a moment, and the surrounding red sky light gradually turned from red to black, as if it was squeezing this hilltop together.
However, the next second, a strange sound rang in everyone's ears, covering up the thunder.
Boom—
It was like a morning bell ringing in the sky, and the spreading black receded like a tide, with spots quickly dissipating. When everyone looked up hurriedly, Master Wuyuan on the ginseng fruit tree trembled at the long and solemn bell sound.
"Just a little bit... a little bit."
The sleeves with yin and yang printed on them fluttered, and the open cuffs suddenly created a suction force, forming a vortex visible to the naked eye, and the claw-shaped palms pulled all the magic power in the body towards the sky.
"Ka-ka..."
The surface of the huge demon star was covered with cracks. Under the infusion of magic power and the impact, countless tiny red crystal fragments were peeled off, igniting flames in the air, and fell to the bustling world below along with the heavy rain.
The rain was pouring down, and it was falling down along the eaves.
In the attic of the imperial city, Yang Jian listened to the various misfortunes coming from outside the palace. He raised his face, closed his eyes, gritted his teeth and took a deep breath. After a moment, he opened his eyes, pushed away Yang Su who was blocking his way, and with a clang, he drew the imperial sword from his waist, held it in his hand, and pointed the tip of the sword at the sky outside where countless fire rain was falling.
"I am the common ruler of the world, the true dragon emperor! You demons, stop harming the people of the Great Sui Dynasty, come at me—"
The old and heroic voice resounded throughout the building and a loud thunder exploded in the sky, as if responding to the elderly emperor. Above Chang'an, dark clouds gathered thickly, and between the lightning snakes that swam out, the clouds rolled and gradually revealed the outline of an eye.
"God has opened his eyes..."
Yang Jian and Yang Su stood there in a daze. When the imperial swords held high in their hands slowly dropped, the 'eye of the cloud' that was difficult to describe in words slowly turned, and the direction they looked in was actually the northwest.
On the towering tree, Master Wu Yuan glanced at the huge cloud eye that was coming towards him, "The Eye of Heaven... hehe... you came at the right time!"
The magical power of his palms and sleeves became even more powerful. The skin around his eye sockets and nose bridge seemed to be shrinking rapidly, and his blood vessels and veins were bulging out.
The pulling magic power turned dark yellow and firmly grasped the huge demon star, dragging it towards the northwest. The uneven surface of the sphere seemed to be sticking to the sky above Chang'an City, whizzing past. The heavy rain in the sky stopped for a moment, scaring the people and soldiers in the city to scream. The city god Ji Xin even rushed up, but although he seemed close, the height was still out of reach.
Boom boom—
A huge demon star flew over the prosperous city, and the broken fragments fluttered and flew down into the atmosphere with flashing red light, dragging the burning flames, and gradually vaporized and dissipated.
The huge main body descended into the atmosphere, and changed direction under the suction, and crashed straight into the Eye of Heaven with a whistling gale. Then, it brushed against a corner of the cloud, dispersed some of the clouds, and just passed by each other.
Almost at the same time, Master Wuyuan, who was being watched by Yunyan, spurted out blood with a "puff" sound from his mouth, and blood mist filled the air. His whole body flew down from the tree cage like a cannonball, smashing into the ruins below and leaving a trail of dust.
There was a dead silence in the courtyard.
“Master—”
Qingfeng covered his chest and stumbled past Fajing. The rope snake that was originally wrapped around Zhu Ganglie, Monk Zhenhai, and Lu Liangsheng suddenly softened and fell to the ground weakly.
call…
Whoosh whoosh…
Lu Liangsheng half-knelt on the ground, looking at the ruins raising dust over there. He hesitated for a moment, then reached out and grabbed the Yuelong Sword. He gritted his teeth and stood up with difficulty.
He took a step forward and staggered towards the ginseng fruit tree. Yuwen Tuo ran over and advised, "Master, you are injured, don't take risks..." but was waved aside by Lu Liangsheng with a sword.
“… Save the people first, get out of the way!”
Just as he was about to fly to the tree cage, the voice of Master Wu Yuan came weakly from the ruins behind him.
"Lu Liangsheng... come here... don't you want to know the truth? Come here, I will tell you everything now..."
Lu Liangsheng clenched the hilt of his sword and subconsciously walked towards the ruins, stepping on the broken bricks and tiles. A little Taoist boy knelt beside him and cried, shaking Master Wuyuan's arm with his little hands.
"Master... wuwu... Master..."
In the mess, Master Wuyuan was lying on the ground. His eyes, which looked up at the sky, were already dull with color. He felt footsteps approaching, and between his gray beard, a smile finally appeared.
"... Liangsheng, I gave you your name... My name is Lu Yuan, with the courtesy name Liangsheng, hehe... Actually, you are me... But I can't be you..."
Bang!
The moon fell to the ground. Lu Liangsheng stood there in a daze and walked towards him instinctively.
…
"Amitabha!"
Monk Zhenkong sighed, bowed his head and walked towards the ginseng fruit tree. Fajing and Toad Taoist who were nearest to him reacted immediately.
"Old monk, where are you going?!"
Fajing rushed forward and threw his hands together, but was bounced back by the old monk's Buddhist power and fell to the ground.
"Uncle Master, you!"
"If I don't go to hell, who will?"
The skinny figure leaped up, walked slowly over the branches and leaves in his monk shoes, came to the center, looked at the evil star that was gradually getting out of its traction, and chanted a Buddhist name with his seal raised.
"Buddha have mercy on me!"
Monk Zhenhai got up, ran two steps and fell to the ground again. He raised his head and shouted at the figure on the tree cage.
“Senior Brother!!”
The wind was blowing wildly, the monk's robes were fluttering, the old monk Zhenkong slowly closed his eyes, and golden light gradually appeared on his body, rising and blooming, like a big sun.